Klara Kochańska
Directing
Biography
Born on 15.06.1984 in Krakow, Poland. She studied five years on Warsaw University in the department of Interdiciplinary Humanistic Studies, among others Anthropology of Culture, Philosophy, History of Art. Since 2009 she is a student of film directing in Polish National Film School in Lodz. Nowadays she is working on a screenplay and pre-production of her feature debut (in production development with Film Studio KADR) and raising a four year old son. She is the author of films screened on festivals in Poland and abroad and distributed by TV channels like Planete+Doc, Kino Polska, TVP Kultura. Her works are, among others, "Snow Queen”, "Resurrection”, „10 Apgar” and "Tenants" as well as music clips like "The Cliff” and „Enchanted”.
Known For
The saga of the Winny family through 100 years. The action begins on the eve of World War I in 1914 and ends in modern times.
Our Century
When her seven-year-old son moves to a new school, an MMA fighter realizes that her toughest fight won't be in the octagon, but in parenthood.
The Mothers of Penguins
After a tragic accident, an amnesiac teen tries to rebuild her life at a memory disorders center but becomes suspicious of her unconventional treatment.
Open Your Eyes
A middle-class Polish make a trip across the Balkans, heading for a refugee camp on the Macedonian-Greek border.
Via Carpatia
Justyna, a young woman who’s the main protagonist in the film, buys a flat at a bailiff auction regardless the risk it may bring. When she wants to move in it turns out that the keys she was given do not fit the locks. A dream about a place of her own turns into a nightmare.
Tenants
The film character, thirty-year-old single woman who is a lawyer, leads a prosperous and well-organized life in Warsaw. Every day in the same time, in her apartment resembling the pictures from luxury catalogue, she practices series of several exercises and cares her body with great patience. However, something is missing…